218 REPORT 
Full grown and nearly full grown birds 14 
One and two year old birds - - 59 
This year's chickens - - - 75 
Total - - - 155 | 
" And, though we have every respect for the old 
proverb, yet with the experience aforesaid, we have 
every confidence in adding forty-tw T o more for the eggs 
now in the machine, besides which some of the hens 
are laying every day. They laid last year up to May, 
when they were permitted to hatch a small clutch of 
eggs themselves, as it was thought they ought to have 
a rest — we mean a rest from laying. We must leave 
it to the imagination of our readers to add up the 
total amount of one year's produce from say seven 
birds — though it is only six in reality — through the 
intervention of artificial incubators. And we think 
that he must be not only an unimaginative man but 
something else who tries to carry on ostrich farming 
without an incubator. One other fact, we think, is 
established, that ostriches must have plenty of room." 
The waltzing described by Mr. Hellier is a most 
amusing sight ; I have often witnessed it at the 
Wimmera, and the performance generally took place 
when the birds were about to be fed, and was only to 
be witnessed when they were in high condition. 
The airs which they play off when domesticated are 
most interesting, running round in a circle and then 
turning round half a dozen times, playing with their 
own shadow, using their wings like fans, lying down 
on the ground, and rolling about in an ecstacy of enjoy- 
ment, then getting up and rushing round the enclosure 
and past the intruder with the speed of a railway train, 
